Tying one on: fetish night this weekend at Oshawa bar

Event will include bondage and flogging demonstration

Fetish Night

Photo Courtesy of Nascent Bondage

OSHAWA — Oshawa’s Atria Bar will host a fetish night on May 2 at 10 p.m., a first for the area in several years. The event will include bondage and flogging demonstrations with demonstrators answering questions from attendees. Organizers are hoping this will be the first of several events in Oshawa. April 30, 2014.

OSHAWA -- Durham residents with a penchant for PVC, leather, fishnets and more can hit a local bar to explore their fetishes with the launch of a fetish event in Oshawa.

Crystal WenchPrincess -- not her real last name but a name she uses -- is a bartender at Atria, 59 King St. E., where she’s promoting the event set for Friday starting at 10 p.m.

“I was asked to do it by one of our customers for his birthday,” she said. “I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. I go to the ones in Toronto all the time.”

Ms. WenchPrincess said there used to be fetish events organized in Durham Region several years ago, but it’s been a while since one was held locally.

Explaining what a fetish is can be complicated.

“It’s like a fixation on something that’s nonsexual, like for example latex, fishnets, those are the two biggest ones,” she said. “PVC, leather, it’s people that are sexually driven by non-sexual objects.”

There’s no sex on the premises, and Ms. WenchPrincess describes the event as more of a social gathering, an opportunity to mix and mingle for a community that can often be silent in public life.

“It brings forth things people aren’t really comfortable speaking about in their day-to-day life,” said Ms. WenchPrincess. “But they still have these fetishes and the event gives them a social outlet for it.”

She said the event gives people an opportunity to meet others; perhaps a polyamorous couple can meet a third party for their relationship or they can meet a “mistress” or “mister”.

Attendees are asked to show up in fetish wear and according to the event’s Facebook page, Down The Rabbit Hole, that could include bondage pants, a school uniform, catsuit, corsets, cosplay, fishnets, formal wear, industrial, latex, leather, nylon, PVC, studded clothes and more.

Ms. WenchPrincess said the presence of stores such as the Stag Shop, a sponsor for the event, and adult video stores in the community speak to the demand for events such as Atria’s fetish night.

The evening will include flogging and bondage demonstrations and the demonstrators will take questions from attendees. Ms. WenchPrincess said the demonstrators understand the risks and can educate people about being safe, sane and consensual.

“I think that it’s important for people, before they engage in certain fetishes like flogging and bondage to be educated,” she said.

Tickets for the event are $10 in advance and $20 at the door. Visit the Facebook page for more information.